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Great guide, talk to the staff they would probably put it up in the official guide section.

That could be a good idea. However, let's wait for another week first, so that the guide feels more complete. For that, I will need a little bit of help from everyone.

1. How do I locate information about targeting recticles in the game files?

I know that they are not accurate (scatter area is a rainbow, not a circle). However, the visual representation might give some clues that could help aiming. For instance, if they represent vertical scatter accurately enough, that is already something.

2. Could somebody provide a howto section about the Walking Stuka barrages?

For instance, if you could provide a screenshot of the targeting recticle vs the actual barrage pattern, that would be ace!

3. I also have some questions of my own about some rarely-used abilities:
- How does B-4 direct fire work?
- What is the effect of Counterbarrage on OSTheer units; is there any difference between mortars/panzerwerfers? Any cooldown?
- How does the OST Artillery officer victor target barrage work?

Even if you think those abilities are useless/rarely used, it would be nice to include them in the guide.

Tommy Scoped Rifle was nerfed from 16 to 14 damage again in December, which is the reason it's worse again at max range than the default one.

Tommy vet3 not only disables Tommies from using other more useful weapons, but now the scoped rifle DPS is lower than the normal one... again?

I remember Relic fiddling with Tommy rifle damage for the December preview mods. The dmg nerf didn't get through for the normal rifle. However, it seems they forgot to revert the scoped rifle dps damage somewhere

Why couldn't that all be achieved with selecting all the vehicles and telling them to reverse out of the way?

Good point. The case I had in mind is that some of the vehicles might have been facing the other way to begin with (e.g., right after a tank battle)..

... or you could have some damaged vehicles returning to the front and catching up with your mobile artillery.

Those are corner cases, I agree; something had to be done about those cases too, though.

However, I do agree that players now lack complete control over their vehicles and that is more important.

Wow, great post, cant believe some of this stuff (reduced accuracy because firing into FoW?? counter intuitive much??).

Biased scatter?? Why the hell is that hidden behind a perfectly symmetrical firing reticule!?

Now that its typed out though i think it lines up with what ive experienced in game.

Gr8 post tho.

The FoW stuff was the same in CoH1. That is to say those who knew it, used it. I only discovered the exact nature of the penalty recently.

I have NO idea why biased scatter had to be brought in. Weapons with biased scatter get a MASSIVE edge over even-scatter weapons (if you know how to use them though).

Now you do. So, please spread the word to everyone you know, so that over-performing artillery is finally rebalanced!

since some people still have trouble...

Thanks. You just beat me to it!

I have just updated the guide with 100% more pictures. Vipper's drawing perfectly visualizes the scatter area. This applies to all indirect weapons in the game.

I have also included some images which help explain HOW to best aim your Katyushas/Panzerwerfers
(Just click on the spoiler tags to reveal the images).

Please let me know if something is still unclear!